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2005 Chrysler 300 Engine problems

Owners have filed 167 complaints about the 2005 Chrysler 300's engine & cooling with NHTSA - 15% of all its complaints, most recently on March 16, 2023. They describe 2 crashes, 2 fires and 1 injury. Stalling, loss of power, oil consumption, overheating, head gaskets, timing chains and engine failure.

Complaints
167
Recalls
0
Crashes
2
Fires
2
Injuries
1
Deaths
0

Engine complaints

Transmission & drivetrainElectrical systemEngine & cooling

my engine blew, transmission is slipping. I'm having electrical and air bag problems.

Filed Incident Power train · Electrical system · EngineNHTSA 11512289
Transmission & drivetrainEngine & coolingFuel system

When the fuel tank is topped off the vehicle stalls 2-6 times until the excess fuel is burned off. This has happened on the road, in parking lots, intersections, etc. It causes total loss of power & power steering. Additionally, I usually have to shift to Park, Neutral, Reverse, Drive, Reverse, and then drive again in order to get the transmission to lock back in forward gearing. Causing me to have to additionally pull over, or stop, when/wherever the incident occurs.

Filed Incident Power train · Engine · Fuel / propulsion systemNHTSA 11476176
Electrical systemEngine & cooling

The contact owns a 2005 Chrysler 300. The contact stated that while operating the vehicle, the check engine warning light would remain illuminated. Occasionally the lights on the dashboard and inside the vehicle would randomly blink off and on. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer who was unable to diagnose the cause of the failure. During the diagnostic test, the electrical fuses continued to malfunction. No further information was available. The manufacturer was not yet notified. The failure mileage was 137,000.

Filed Incident Electrical system · EngineNHTSA 11442071
Engine & coolingFuel system

Every time I fill my gas tank up the car oil light comes on and it stalls. Sometimes it does this 2 or 3 times then it runs ok until its time to fill car up again, then the same thing happens.

Filed Incident Engine · Fuel / propulsion systemNHTSA 11396233
Electrical systemAcceleration & cruise controlEngine & cooling

The main grounding wire passenger-side engine block contact point had corrosion(rust) limiting electrical current flow to the wiring harness. This caused too much current to flow to 2 smaller 16 gauge grounding wires attached to the rear of each hemi cylinder head to fry. This directly affects the ccn bus communications to the cpu. Any device, module, or sensor attached to the ccn bus can have intermittent behavior. Examples of very bad behavior in my car: 1. The alarm randomly going off while parked or when...

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driving the car. 2. While parked and the alarm set the sunroof decided to open up during a rainstorm filling my car with 3 inches of rain. 3. The 300c doesn't use a throttle cable. It utilizes a throttle position sensor that communicates with the cpu over the ccn bus. Just touching the gas pedal was the same as pressing the gas pedal to the floor. It's a good thing that when this happened to me there was no traffic on the road and I was close to home. Since this is ccn 2-wire twisted pair bus communication issue anything that communicates with the cpu can have a random intermittent problem. Since these cars are getting older I have to think that there are other cars that are or will have similar issues. Pray to god that your throttle doesn't stick wide open like mine did. I had to keep my foot buried on the brake while I was screaming down the road until I was able to turn off the ignition. Have fun coming to a stop or driving home after that happens. Formally I was an i2c bus communications(2 wire bus) expert at both intel corp and cisco systems. I know what I am talking about. Today I talked with a bremerton chrysler/dodge/jeep technical service representative about this issue. Bottom-line over $3000 to fix. There may have been somebody somewhere that is dead because of this factory defect and no one is the wiser. Why not a factory recall issue?

Filed Incident Electrical system · Vehicle speed control · EngineNHTSA 11361862
Engine & cooling

Whenever I do a quick acceleration, my check engine light comes on and the car temporarily lose power. When the car lose power, I cannot control it, which is very dangerous. When the check engine light comes on no codes are stored. Also, I have experience this problem while sitting at a red light. For the most part, this problem mostly occur during acceleration. I have had the spark plugs replaced and throttle body cleaned but the problem presist. From my research, this problem appears to be regular throughout the chrysler/dodge family. This problem needs to be rectified before someone lose their life in an unnecessary accident.

Filed Incident EngineNHTSA 11350571
Body, doors & structureEngine & coolingVisibility & wipers

I was going to check the oil level when the top of the dipstick came off in my hand. It is made of plastic.; I was opening the drivers door, the handle came halfway off, subsequently all handles have done the same thing. The washer fluid does not spray. These problems all happened in the past 3 or 4 years. The vehicle was stationary for these problems. While turning, the steering wheel would not continue too turn, heard a " thunk", finally turned but the turn signal mechanism does not work now.

Filed Incident Structure · Engine · Visibility / wiperNHTSA 11299494
Engine & coolingFuel system

Car shut off while driiving 30mph also with full will jerk and stall

Filed Incident Engine · Fuel / propulsion systemNHTSA 11277783
Electrical systemEngine & cooling

Tl* the contact owns a 2005 chrysler 300c. While driving 45 mph, the vehicle stalled. The contact was able to coast the vehicle to the side of the road. The vehicle was taken to two independent mechanics, but the cause of the failure could not be determined. Failure codes appeared after the vehicle was retrieved. Lithia chrysler dodge jeep ram fiat of santa fe (4470 cerrillos rd, santa fe, nm 87507, (505) 629-0746) stated that there appeared to be an electrical failure and were checking all the wiring on the harness with multiple codes appearing. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was 81,000. The vin was unknown.

Filed Incident Electrical system · EngineNHTSA 11219063
Engine & cooling

A couple months back the engine shut down going down the road, computer checked showing the heat sensor went bad ,had it replaced and also installed a new thermostat just in case. Yesterday 12/6 2018 took the car out and went to the outlets roughly 25 miles away car ran great . Stop for gas on the way back a mile from home, left the station went a 1/4 mile the car shut down again,started right back up went another 1/2 mile and it shut down again, started right back up and went 1/4 mile to the house. Had my son in...

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law who is a mechanic do a computer check and nothing shows up. Car has 38777 miles on it and garage kept, little dangerous since u loose the steering and brakes when it shuts down, fortunately for me I had a place to pull over to get off the highway. Checking with the dealership tomorrow to see if others had this problem. Had a very similar problem with my chryler crossfire years back where the car would not accelerate had some close calls at stop signs had to replace the complete acceleration unite had less than 4000 miles on the car but the car was out of warranty cost me over $300 but the engine didn't shut down like this one.Was on a town street when it shut off

Filed Incident EngineNHTSA 11164139
Engine & coolingFuel system

After filling gas tank, when weather is below 40 degrees f, vehicle stumbles, stalls and is hard to restart while driving in traffic.

Filed Incident Engine · Fuel / propulsion systemNHTSA 11156446
Engine & coolingCrash

Was backing out of parking space. Had foot on brake put car in reverse the motor revving flew back while foot was still on brake. I purchased it in 2013 the engine revs in both reverse and driving. Have taken to dealership they stated could not find any reason. My foot was not on gas as a matter of fact I had both feet on the brake trying to stop the car.

Filed Incident EngineNHTSA 11150965
Engine & cooling

The chrysler just cuts off in the middle of the highway making a left turn without warning or check engine light due to engine failure.

Filed Incident EngineNHTSA 11140135
Engine & cooling

My car stalls while driving periodically stalls when the car is at idle. It even stallls going down the highway at speeds 65. We have changed everything possible except the engine. The car starts right up after stall but will stall in traffic. I have looked at many forums and they all say the same thing numerous complaints of car shutting off while driving. I have checked all recalls. This is a major safety concern. This happens everyday.

Filed Incident EngineNHTSA 11111380
Engine & cooling

My chrysler 300c has 114,805 miles on it. I drove it to the gas station before going home. Filled it up with gas. Went to start it up and it wouldn't. I had to have it towed to the shop. The outside temperature last night was 63. The engine temperature was normal. There were no warning signs. The car drove fine all the way from my office to the gas station which is 33 miles. Mechanic says the valve seat has dropped and the engine is completely ruined now. I now have to pay almost $7,000 to get my car driveable again.

Filed Incident EngineNHTSA 11081606
Engine & cooling

Oil light came on at slow speed and engine shut off by it self, on a city street. Why?

Filed Incident EngineNHTSA 11043197
Engine & cooling

The cylinder valve seat fell off the cylinder head, then fell down into the piston causing damage to the valves and piston thus the only repair possible is to replace the engine. Not sure when this happened because there were no warning signs.

Filed Incident EngineNHTSA 11033867
Engine & cooling

I HAVE A TICKING NOISE IN MY ENGINE DON'T KNOW WHY

Filed Incident EngineNHTSA 11030686
SteeringEngine & coolingFuel system

This car will stall at completely random intervals. It has done it at speed, on acceleration, on deceleration, at stops. Occasionally the cruise control will not function correctly. The car will also spit, sputter and buck at speeds above 35mph. When this happens, there is a total loss of power steering, brakes, etc. In order to restart the car, it requires being placed into neutral or park, and trying at least 3 times before engine will run again. The car will usually continue to stall 3-10 times. On returning to...

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"drive" the car will usually stay stationary for another 5-10 seconds before surging forward. Reverse does not have this effect. Car has been checked by several mechanics, who can pull no codes, and don't seem to have any clue what is causing the intermittent issue. It is very dangerous situation, as there is no warning the car is about to stall, and there is no pattern to when it will stall. In googling the issue, I was able to find the chrysler campaign x53 extended warranty on "some" 2006 300cs, but when I called the chrysler dealer to check my vin, I was told my car is not covered under this known defective gas tank. The message boards have many instances of people describing this exact issue for this exact car. This a seriously life threatening issue.

Filed Incident Steering · Engine · Fuel / propulsion systemNHTSA 11024821
Engine & coolingFuel system

Tl* the contact owns a 2005 chrysler 300. The contact stated that while driving at 10 mph, the vehicle stalled. The contact mentioned that the oil pressure warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic were no error codes were detected during diagnostic testing. The contact stated that the vehicle was then taken to jim shorkey auto group dealer located at 13339 lincoln hwy, north huntingdon, pa 15642, phone number: (724) 616-0083, where the diagnoses was unknown. The contact stated...

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that he found a x53 extended warranty (fuel tanks) for 2005-2006 chrysler 300, that presented the same failure as his vehicle of engine stalling at low speeds. The manufacturer was notified and confirmed that the vehicle was not included due to the fact that the vehicle fuel tank was not the correct size and offered no further assistance. The failure mileage was approximately 45,000.

Filed Incident Engine · Fuel / propulsion systemNHTSA 11012441
Engine & cooling

Whenever I fill up at the gas station about 2-3 minutes later while I'm driving the entire dash board will light up and the car will cut completely off. I have to put in in park and try to restart it about 5 times, each time the oil light comes on and it just stalls, once it does catch the speed fluctuates up and down but about 5 minutes later it happens all over again. I know it has nothing to do with the oil because I had gotten an oil change before I put the gas in the car. This had happened a couple of years...

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ago so I had just stopped filling the car up and this time I forgot. The car cuts off while in motion, you can't turn the steering wheel, it just stops where ever you are, all I could do was cut on the hazards and keep trying to restart it, it sounds like you are trying to restart while it's already on, it makes a screeching sound, and sounds like it's trying to catch.

Filed Incident EngineNHTSA 11002640
Electrical systemEngine & coolingFire

Tl* the contact owns a 2005 chrysler 300. While driving 45 mph, the engine warning indicator illuminated and the engine stalled. The vehicle was towed to the dealer where it was diagnosed that the vehicle needed to be serviced. The vehicle was repaired, but the failure recurred after the repair. The contact also stated that all the doors failed to unlock. The police had to unlock the doors. The vehicle was towed to the dealer where it was diagnosed that the water pump, batteries, and the entire motor needed to be...

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replaced. The contact received a replacement key fob, which also failed to unlock the doors. The vehicle was repaired. Also, while driving 30 mph, the contact noticed smoke under the hood. The contact pulled over to the side of the road. The contact poured water to stop the smoke, but the failure recurred several other times. The manufacturer was made aware of the failures. The failure mileage was 139,000. The vin was not available.

Filed Incident Electrical system · EngineNHTSA 10984530
Engine & cooling

Tl* the contact owns a 2005 chrysler 300. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the check engine warning light illuminated and the vehicle stalled. The contact stated that the vehicle was towed to the dealer to be diagnosed. The contact was informed that the throttle body and intake gasket needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired however, the failure recurred. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 191,678. Updated 07/13/17*lj *as

Filed Incident EngineNHTSA 10982980
Engine & coolingTransmission & drivetrain

Tl* the contact owns a 2005 chrysler 300. While driving 30 mph, it was extremely difficult to shift the vehicle into first gear. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic who diagnosed that the radiator failed and caused antifreeze to enter the transmission. The vehicle was repaired, but the failure recurred. The manufacturer was not made aware of the issue. The approximate failure mileage was 36,000.

Filed Incident Engine and engine cooling · Power trainNHTSA 10979072
AirbagsSeats & seat beltsEngine & cooling

I test drove the car and it drove fine . When I was driving it home it stoped twice. Once when I stoped to get gas. I got help from another driver . I got it jumped but it took a while to get it to start. After that I was going straight home . It stoped in the middle of the highway. This time it would not start and the driver seatbelt came off . I had to have it towed home. Sense then it has not turned on. Im not sure if there more problems yet the dealer did not inform me anything about these problems.

Filed Incident Air bags · Seat belts · EngineNHTSA 10958335

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